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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFIcE.

GEORGE W. MCGILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PIN.

$PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,952, dated November4, 1902. Application filed February 21,1901. Serial 116.48.341. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE \V. MOGILL, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at River-j dale-on-Hudson, in the city of New York andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pins, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pins adapted for use in pinning fabrics, aswell as and especially to pins for store and office and other use, thepurpose being to providea T-shaped pin of novel construction which willoperate to hold open or spread in a flat condition tabs or papersattached by the pin to fabrics or articles of fibrous material orpackets that are secured together by the pin or to secure togetherpapers and prevent their being folded or subjected to strain along theline of fastening of the pin where the material is weakened by thepin-holes; to pin and bear laterally-upon bands securing togetherpackages of paper money put up by bankers; to attach tidies to chairs,sofas, and the like; to serve as a convenient means for draping curtainsand dressing shop-windows, and to admit of their ready bending orbooking for such purpose and for various and numerous other usefulemployments.-

To these ends my invention consists in a novel pin constructed in themanner hereinafter shown and described, and particularly. pointed outgenerically and specifically in the claims following the description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, wherein- Figure 1 is a view of one of my completed pins,showing its most approved construction. Fig. 2 is a view of the pinproper before the attachment thereto of the tubular capforming-its,cross-head. Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which thetubular cap or crosshead isformed. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of thetubular cap forming the cross-head before itsattachment to the headingor capping end .of the pin. Fig. 5 is'a View of a blank 'from whichamodified form of tubular oapcon'stituting the cross-head is formed.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of such modified tubular cap or cross-headbefore its attachment to the pin. Fig. 7 is a View of a modified form ofthe heading or capping end of the pin before the tubular cap has beenapplied thereto. Fig. 8 is a view of such modified form of the headingor capping end of "the pin with the tubular cap applied thereto.

Fig. 9 is a view of a blank for providing a still further modified formof the tubular cap forming the cross-head. 10 is a view of a pin withsuch modified form of tubular cap or cross-head applied thereto. Fig. 11is a view illustrating one method of applying the pin, andFigs. 12 and13 are similar views illustrating the completed pin adapted to hangingdraperies and displaying goods.

My invention provides a novel fabric-pin of material securedintermediate its ends to the other end of the shank and constituting across-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally upon the fabric.

What I consider the cheapest and most practical mode of constructing myfabric-pin is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,referring to Figs. 1 to 4, the numeral 1 indicates the body or shank ofthe pin,comprising a relatively longstraight piece of wire of suitablelength and having a pointed end 2. The opposite end of the pin is bentlaterally to one side at a right angle, as at 3, to form a relativelyshort heading or capping part, as shown most clearly in Fig.

2 of the drawings. Secured to the heading or capping end of the pin 2 isa tubular cap 4, that projects laterally at right angles to the shank ofthe pin and preferably at equal distances on each side of the latter.This tubular cap is shorter in length or spread than is the body orshank of the pin in length and may be conveniently formed by providing arectangular blank of sheet metal (shown in Fig. 3) and having a centralperforation 5 therein of a size to receive the shank of the pin. Thisblank is bent up into substantially tubular shape, as shown in Fig. 4,after which the shank of the pin is passed through the perforation 5until the heading part 3 of the pin rests within the tubular cap. Thetubular cap is then bent or closed about the heading part until itsedges meet or abut, thus forming a completed cylindrical tube thatentirely surrounds the heading part and is tightly clamped about thesame and about the shank of the pin, as shown in Fig. 1 and otherfigures of the drawings, providing a fasteningpin having a relativelylong and pointed penetrating shank or prong projecting from one side ofthe central part of a relatively short tubular cross-head or cap.Instead, however, of forming the tubular cap in the manner abovedescribed it may be formed from the rectangular blank shown in Fig. 5,which instead of being provided centrally with a per foration isprovided on its opposite edges midway between its ends with twosemicircular notches or recesses 6. The said blank so recessed is bentinto substantially tubular shape, as shown in Fig. 6, and is closed uponthe heading end 3 of the pin with the body part or shank of the pinoccupying the recesses 6 in its abutting edges,the blank formiugacompleted cylindrical tube,thatis tightly clamped about the head andshank of the pin. In both forms of construction above referred to thereis provided a pin having a straightpointed and relatively long shank 1,a relatively short heading part 3, bent laterally to one side at a rightangle, and a tubular cap 4, through which the shank of the pin passesand which is tightly clamped about the heading end and shank of the pin,said tubular cap extending equally on each side of and at right anglesto the shank of the pin, providing the device a relatively shortcross-head having a penetrating shank or prong of a length greater thanthat of such cross-head projecting laterally from one side of thecentral part of such cross-head intermediate its ends.

In Figs 7 and 8 the pin is shown formed with an extension orcontinuation of its laterally-bent heading-end part in manner to providea depending loop 7, the base of which lies and bears laterally againstor substantially against the shank 1 of the pin below its cross-head andwhich at its extremity or free end is bent inward toward the oppositeside of the shank and in alinement with the heading part 3, as mostclearlyshown at 8 in Fig.

7. After the heading part 3 has been thus provided either of the tubularcapping-blan ks shown in Figs. 4 and 6 may be placed over the heading orcapping parts 3 and 8 and be clamped tightly thereon and about the shankof the pin, as shown in Fig. 8, in the manner before set forth. Vith theheading end of the pin so fashioned a portion of the article pinned byit will be clamped between the base of such depending loop and the shankof the pin, assisting the retention of the pin in such article andpermitting a marking card or tag being slid in between the article andsuch clamping-loop and held therein by the natural resiliency of suchloop. This modified construction of the heading end of the pin providingit with a dependent loop bearing against the shank of the pin is thesubject-matter of a division of this application, filed August 11, 1902,Serial No. 119,340.

The blanks shown in Figs. 3and 5, forming the tubular cap or cross-head,may be further modified by serrating the opposite ends thereof, as shownat 9 in Fig. 9 of the drawings, and when said blank is bent up intotubular form and clamped or closed about the head the serrated ends 9are turned or closed in, so as to close the ends of the tubular cap, asbest shown in Fig. 10. By thus constructing the tubular cap the ends aretightly closed, effectually preventing the entrance and retention offoreign substances and avoiding all sharp edges.

In some instances in using the pin it may be found useful and desirableto permit the free or pointed end of the shank of the pin to protrudethrough the front surface of the article pinned and to bend back suchportion of the pin, as shown at 10 in Fig. 11, and hook its pointedextremity under one end of the tubularcap,whichmaybeknurled,asshownat11,thus shieldingthe point,the shank or prong of the pin being ofsufficient length to admit of its being so pinned or laced through thefabric, and thus bent or folded, as shown in said figure. In this mannerthe accidental withdrawal of the pin is positively and effectivelyguarded against. Furthermore, the pointed end of the shank of the pinafter or before being inserted and pressed through a fabric or otherarticle may be bent to form a hook 11, as shown in Figs. 12 and 13, toform a convenient means for suspending articles, as, for example,curtains and other draperies, articles displayed in show-windows, andthe like.

Numerous other uses for the pin might be set forth herein; but variousdifferent useful purposes to which it can be advantageously andconveniently applied will continuously suggest themselves, and it isdeemed unnecessary to further refer to the Varied different ways inwhich the pin may be utilized, as it is the pin itself which I claim anddesire to cover by Letters Patent and not the manner of its employment,which will suggest itself in many ways.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. As a new article ofmanufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of a penetrating-shank composed ofa single wire pin-pointed at one end, and a separate piece of materialsecured intermediate its ends to the other end of the shank andconstituting a cross-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally uponthe fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of apenetrating-shank composed of a single, relatively long wire pinpointedat one end, and a relatively short separate piece of material securedintermediate its ends to the other end of the shank and constituting across-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally upon the fabric.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of arelatively long, penetrating-prong, bent laterally at one end; and

a relatively short, tubular, metal head with free or unattached endsextending laterally at opposite sides of said prong and constituting across-head for the shank, arranged to bear laterally on the fabric, saidhead secured upon the laterally-bent end of the prong and having anopening intermediate its ends through which the prong projects.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a single-pronged T-shapedfastening-pin consisting of a penetrating-prong made of suitable wirehaving one of its ends pointed and a portion of its other end bent toproject laterally and at a right angle from the body part of said prong,in combination with a pin cap or head consisting of a cylindricaltubular metal case or cap provided with an aperture intermediate itsopposite ends, the unpointed and laterally-projecting bent end part ofthe pinprong being inclosed in and occupying part of such cylindricaltubular heading case or cap, securing it thereto, and the other part ofsuch prong extending out through the central aperture in said case ortubular cap intermediate its opposite ends and at right angles thereto,providing a cylindrical tubular cross-head to the pin-prong, the ends ofwhich are free and unattached, substantially as described.

5. Apin for use in pinning articles of fibrous material having a singleprong or shank made from a single piece of suitable wire,'pointed at oneend and having a portion of its other end bent laterally at a rightangle from the rest of the prong, in combination with a split metalcylindrical tubular case one half of which is closed upon the unpointedbent and laterally-projecting part of the prong attaching it thereto,and the other half closed upon itself into a corresponding cylindricalform,

each end of said tube extending from opposite sides of the prong, thesaid ends being free and unattached, in the same plane with each otherand at rightangles to said prong, providing the device with acylindrical tubular cross-head at right angles with its prong andimparting to it a T shape.

6. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wirehaving a short portion of one end of the same bent at a right angle tothe remaining or longer portion,such longer portion being straight andterminating in a pin-point,in combination with a tubular metal case orcap having free and unattached ends and closed in part uponthe shortbent portion of the wire, said tubular case being of a length or spreadless than the length of the longer and pointed portion of thewire andhaving such longer and pointed portion of the wire projecting laterallythrough and from its cenportion of the wire projecting laterally ends,the said ends of the tubular case or cap being free and unattached,substantially as described.

8. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wirehaving a portion of one end of the same bent at a'right angle to theremaining portion, the latter portion being straight and terminating ina pin-point, in combination with a cylindrical tubular metal case or caphaving free and unattached ends and closed in part upon the bent portionof the wire and said case having the unbent or straight and pointedportion of the wire projecting laterally through and from its centerintermediate its ends, the extremities of such ends being serrated andfolded inwardly closing the tubular case, substantially as described.

9. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wirehaving a portion of oneend of the same bent at a right angle to theremaining portion, the latter portion be ing straight and terminating ina pin-point,

in combination with a cylindrical tubular metal case or cap closed inpart upon the bent portion of the wire and said case having the unbentor straight and pointed portion of the wire projecting laterally throughand from its center intermediate its ends, the extremities of such endsbeing closed and unpointed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. MOGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MoGILL, THOMAS H. BAROWSKY.

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